Happy Halloween!

We had a lot of fun at our Halloween parade/party today!

 Thank you to our PTO Room Reps, Kate Bennett, Danielle Smith, and Candace Spencer, who coordinated and helped with our party!  Also, thanks to Colleen Lance, Jinyeon Shin, Lakeya Wilson & Ron Latson for their help!

 Thank you to the Beatrice's family for the paper products!
Thank you to Zubi's family for the sweet treats!
Thank you to Duncan's family for the goldfish crackers!
Thank you to Kameron's family for the juice boxes!

Stuffed Animals At School!!!

To celebrate filling our bucket, each of us brought a stuffed animal to school!  

Our stuffed animals learned, listened, and cuddled with us throughout the day.

 

 We earned fuzz balls to fill our bucket by following the essential  agreements and making great choices as a class - as opposed to this behaving like this...

We also enjoyed homemade chocolate chip cookies made by Miss Rollins.  Yum! 

"The BEST Butter I've Ever Had!"

As part of our IB Unit Of Inquiry, "Who We Are", we have been learning about what life was like for families long ago.  Unlike our families, families in the past did not head to Heinen's or Dave's for their butter; they churned it!  After watching a short video demonstrating the butter churning process, we made our own butter.  Using heavy whipping cream, a glass mason jar, and some very strong arm muscles, we simulated the motion of churning butter by shaking the jar up and down.  The result was, as one student described it, "The BEST butter I've ever had!" spread on saltine crackers.

Field Trip To The Woodbury Science Lab

On Tuesday, our class took a field trip to the Woodbury Science Lab.  

Thank you to Colleen Lance for chaperoning!

Mrs. Hochman taught us about matter (anything that takes up space and has weight).  

We learned about two states of matter - solid and liquid.  

We inquired, explored, experimented.

We also practiced describing the properties of a variety of different materials.